It’s frustrating when they stop making some sort of mass produced food product that you enjoy. Some things are generic enough that you can find a passable substitute. But it’s usually impossible to get the right combination of chemicals and industrial textures that your memory craves. What is your favorite long lost food item?

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I remember lots of cereals they made just for movie releases…I was sad to see them go. And there was this boxed pasta stuff that I loved that went away for like 10 years. I was pleased they brought it back. And these lil strawberry jelly twinkie roll thingies.

I dont have an entire brand of anything that’s been discontinued, but any time I find a variant of a soda that I really like (whether it’s limited edition or been around for years), it tends to disappear within a year, or even a few months.
Along the lines of cereal, I still consider old Trix discontinued, since new Trix is just Trix-flavored fruit puffs (the shape was important for the proper ratio of soggification to crunchiness while maximizing flavor dispersement!)

At least Biff now probably has more decoder rings than he (usually) has fingers. That’s /some/ consolation.

Man, I miss Zeltzer Seltzer, from when I was a kid. I’m sure Chris is old enough to remember it. I also hate it when my favourite deoderant is discontinued, my sunglasses are discontinued. Raybans have a year guarantee, but when I sent mine in for repair (even including the money to fix ’em) they wrote back saying they were discontinued, and kept my money too. WTH? They told me I could have a 40% discount on a new pair, but still what the heck man?

I can’t remember if I’ve ever posted a comment on this particular Webcomic before… In case I haven’t I’d like to say that this is easily my second-favorite Webcomic after Order of the Stick. Considering the amount of Webcomics I read, the translation to that is: “This Webcomic is AWESOME!”

But anyway, I just had to comment due to the question you posed:

My long-lost favorite food item? Those Cadbury Crunchie Ice-cream bars (More common in the UK and Australia than the U.S.A I believe)…. They still technically produce and sell them, but only in Supermarket ‘boxes’ of ice-creams, occasionally, rather than all over the place at every gas station.

Well, I can’t think of anything I used to eat that I lost, but in one ice cream parlor I went to, they had the licorish flavor (like black licorish candies, but Ice Cream!), I’ve never seen it since and only had it that one time, but I would still call it my favorite ice cream flavor, I’ve never had the opportunity to return there and I don’t know the exact name/location 🙁
So it’s almost as good as gone…

and a secon to Eliza about Dragon fruit Sobe. Did you ever have those “Element” drinks?” I think it was Fire, Rain, Wind, and something representing earth. The fire one was also dragonfruit. God I love dragonfruit!

Lunchables Dunkables; they stopped selling those ages ago. They were definitely my favorite out of their whole line; you could tear apart the breadsticks and put both dips on both sides. D= I miss those!

I realize how silly this is, but I really miss how taco bell used to put chives on their fiesta potatos. It made a big difference to me to see something green :c
I had something else too, but its slipping my mind now after reading all the comments xD

@Fafnir13 OMG dnL!!!!!! I still have a bottle from the upside-down 7up called dnL because I miss it so much. It was the best!

Also missed forever will be Snapple Elements. They had so many flavors at peak production and now i think they still only make a few. I also have one of every bottle they made stored away somewhere. I just can’t let go of the memory. Gravity, the one with carrot, was my favorite.

Dutch Apple unfrosted Pop Tarts,
Purple Passion soda
The Original Original Coca Cola (Before New Coke, after New Coke what they came back out with in ‘Original Coke’ was still not the same flavor as before.)

In terms of cereal, I think Crispy Critters is one I miss the most (remember the commercial? – http://tinyurl.com/2tglbz). I also remember this potato skins chip from the mid 80s that I really dug, but the snack chip I miss most of all is probably “Pizzarias” (I think Keebler made them). Of course, this was all good when I was a kid – back then, I thought Pop-Tarts were tasty. Who knows if I’d like any of it now.

There used to be this super-smooth flavored peanut butter called Koogle; my favorite flavor was the cinnamon. Also a candy called Turkish Taffy was discontinued a while back, but I’ve read rumors of its returning to production sometime in 2010. Apple Slice soda…

You can still get Moxie with cane sugar, but you need to find a specialty shop that carries it. I know of a good one in Illinois (south of Buffalo Grove) but I’m sure if you looked you can find someone to get it for you.

Man, I hate it when they discontinue things. My favorite cereal was Timon and Pumba’s Mud and Bugs cereal. It was basically a chocolate Lucky Charms cereal, but it tasted a lot better than Lucky Charms. Unfortunately, it got discontinued some time ago and I rarely eat cereal anymore.

Also, Hershey use to make these Gogurt like tubes filled with pudding instead of yogurt. Some of the best pudding I’ve had. Disappeared some time ago as well.

when i was a kid they made these miniature frozen pizzas that were about 3″ or so in diameter. they weren’t a bagel bite, they were actual pizzas on actual tiny pizza crusts. haven’t seen those in years.

Quisp cereal. I loved that stuff. Probably the closest I can get now is Cap’n Crunch, but it’s not quite the same.

And the original Doo-Dads snack mix. They changed the flavor a couple decades ago and I didn’t really like it much any more. And now I think it no longer exists at all (probably b/c they changed the formula! It was awesome the way it was when I was a kid, why couldn’t they leave well enough alone??!!)

Regular tart’n’tiny’s. The new ones are candy coated like m&m’s. They were like sweetarts, only tiny. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen the candy coated ones in a while.

I also liked when the Sour Patch Kids fruits were available separately at the Sweet Factory. You know, where you can get a whole scoop of just the one you want. They still have most of them, but not the Grapes. I love the grapes! They still make them, but I have to sit and pick them out of the mix. They don’t come by themselves anymore.

I forgot. Ocean Spray had a limited run of Cran-blueberry juice that was only available at their factory in Vegas, or Seattle. I lived in Seattle for a year, and when I moved back to CA, I packed all I could fit in my suitcase!

I know they have the 100% cran-blueberry, but it’s somehow not the same. Tastes funny. But I make my own now-one bottle of cranberry juice, and half a bottle of blueberry juice. Tastes great.

Not a food so much as a condiment: Brown Cow chocolate syrup. It was delicious on ice cream, sweet and tangy at the same time, and it made for great chocolate milk. Now you can only get Hershey’s syrup or liquid Quik. Nowhere near as good.

i don’t remember eating anything that they don’t make any more, but it’s just as frustrating when they change things. like i used to love Tony’s frozen pizzas for one, but they recently changed to a thinner crust and the crust was the best part, so now they suck. every frozen pizza i’ve ever really liked has changed something so that they are now unpalatable; i don’t know what i’m going to do for frozen pizza anymore.

Yeah, Surge! It was the closest thing I found to Rondo, another missed soda. Once they had a contest, where you peel off the label, and find a scratch-off on the inside. I won a pair of Motorola Walkabout radios. And you’re right about never quite finding the right combo of elements again. Kind of like when someone uses your car or computer, and changes some of the little things without telling you. It just doesn’t seem to feel right afterwards, no matter what you do to get it back to normal.

I miss the bacon cheeseburger burrito from Taco Bell. Other foods I miss because they are regional to my home town and I can’t get them down here in Florida. One is Grandma Brown’s Baked beans which my family has to bring to me when ever they visit and the other is all the different flavors of Adirondac Soda. Thank you to Reese’s for bringing back the dark chocolate peanut butter cups.

I miss Oops All Berries. I’d have filled the house if I knew they were going away like that. It still makes me sad, it was the best ever and now it’s gone. I try to drown my sorrows in Fibre One, but it’s very much not the same.

Not exactly discontinued, but I remember when I was in Lagos in Portugal, they had this Fanta Grape that was divine, I brought home a six pack with me because you couldn’t get them in Ireland, and the Fanta Grape in America ain’t got nothing on Portugal’s one.

omg I HATE that. My dad and I have come to realize that acme, the local supermarket, is keeping tabs on me and anytime I come in for a certain product often enough, they discontinue it. I can count at least like, 15 evidences at this point of certain food items I love and absolutely devour as soon as I get them, and then somehow the world ends their short, delicious lives too early. This saddens me deeply.
in fact one of my favorite doritos, smokin’ cheddar bbq, just came out again so I’ve already bought like 5 bags. I remember eating them like 10 years ago and they were the best, and only within the past year have they been brought back, discontinued, and revived once more.

others I miss: the life-saver lollipops, this brown-maple cured ham stuff, a large variety of chocolate chip cookies from different companies, (I love chocolate chip cookies) hershey’s made little milkshakes for a while that were astounding, and some others I can’t remember.

Canada Dry Cranberry Ginger Ale. It was sold during the (IIRC) 2002 and 2003 Christmas seasons, but I haven’t seen it since. (Yeah, one can always mix ginger ale and cranberry juice; but it’s a *lot* more expensive that way…)

I can think of a few… Trillian reminded me of Planter’s Cheese Balls; Also, Tyson’s Riblets; Texans may remember H-E-B’s Bratwurst Bites; Patio Mini Tacos (TV dinners still came in foil back then); Taco flavored Doritos, which was gone for twenty years, then came back in a limited run this year renamed “Tacos at Midnight”; and, lastly, the Arch Deluxe.

I am with CasualOtaku I miss the Bar None bar so much. It was my favorite candy bar to date. Whatchamacallit is a very poor substitute. But I have recently found out that they are still being sold in Mexico… But I am nowhere near mexico. And as cereal goes, I miss Oreo O cereal.

reynard61: they still sell Canada Dry cranberry ginger ale in BC, but mostly just during the winter months. I had some extra stashed at my dads place after new years, so i last had it in april. mmm. can’t wait for more in november!

@ CalliopeJane: They still make Quisp, you just have to buy it direct from the company. They no longer ship it to distributors. You might be able to get it from a specialty store, but it would be easiest (but probably not cheap) to order it from the company online.

Surge was one of those I liked. Muntain Dew is good too, but the flavor is just too different (and curse you, PespsiCo, for continually discontinuing the flavors of Dew I like and only keeping them with different recipes or the flavors I don;t like!).

Where to start? Hokay. Pizza flavoured Pringles. White-Cheese Cheese Balls. I offered some of these special limited edition Cheese Balls that I loved to a friend. He ate a couple and informed me, almost spitting them out, that they tasted like ‘monkey spunk’. Go figure. Salsa flavoured Mammoths (corn snack with an AMAZING and badly missed flavour). Vanilla Coke, which apparently was trialed here in New Zealand, and then released in Australia (DAMN YOU!). Sometimes I even miss Raspberry Coke. And DEFINITELY Cherry Coke. Original L&P (before the Coca-Cola Company got to it). I kinda miss Salt and Vinegar popcorn. Strange product, but tasty. And finally, original Swiss Maid Dairy Food, especially Vanilla (not seen since the 80s).

Man that stuff was Nasty. Well, IS nasty. They still sell where I’m at. I miss my MELLO YELLO. They had the gall to replace that with Surge. NOT a good substitute. Neither is Mountain Dew, so don’t go there lol. It just isnt the same.

How I miss thee, oh sweet deliciousness that was Mello Yello. I always loved you. XD

When I was in Mexico about ten years ago, I was addicted to the apple joya’s. Can’t get them here in Missouri, not even at the specialty pop store in the St. Louis Mills mall. I tried a different flavored apple pop…and it just wasn’t the same.

Plantars made P.B. Crisp which I barely remember from my early childhood. Flaky crispy soft shell around a peanut buttery center sweet enough to be candy. Nutter Butters can’t even compare.
Anyone seen these anywhere?

But what I miss most is Chili’s High and Mighty Ice Cream Pie. Apparently they discontinued it because too much melted during shipping. By now I can barely remember what it was like, but I know it was good. I’m only 18, but it’s gotten to the point where no Chili’s employees even know about it anymore.

Of course Dorito’s Jalapeno 3D’s were the best. I have never found anyone who didn’t like them. This past year when they were releasing a new flavor I thought they got their senses back, however it was just 5 or 6 strange new flavors. I tried the late night Jalapeno poppers, but That was a swing and miss.

I went through Army basic in the past 6 months and heard about a new blue soda. My heart skipped a beat as i imagined the orgasmic taste of Pepsi Blue. It turned out that it was just Mountain Dew Voltage which is delicious but I can no longer get due to being stationed in Germany. Besides it’s too good so it’ll be discontinued any day now.

I’m just happy to see Boo Berry back on the shelves during Holloween, it used to be that they would only release Count Chocula and Franken Berry. Of course it wastn’t the flavor I liked, it was the fact that he was blue.

Carnation Breakfast Bars are what I miss the most (not the chewy ones they morphed into later, but the original firm and somewhat crumbly ones). I was partial to the Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter kind. It seems silly but they were far better and more flavorful than anything out there now. *Sigh*…

Butter Brickle icecream and soda with real sugar. PepsiCo will be producing another run of Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback this December, made with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. I got some Mt.D throwback the first time, that first drink was a flashback to the 1970’s when soda was real soda and little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. As for Pepsi Throwback, I only managed to get one bottle. Dayum! That stuff is actually better than CocaCola!

Yeah the fruit shaped Twix is utterly wrong. Looks like it’s been coated with non-osmotic, semi-permeable, non-nutritive cereal varnish. I miss the Crunch Berries that was just the berries. When they ended that they put other ghastly flavors in the regular Crunch Berries.

I don’t think I have anything too out there, but Ravioli-Os were recently discontinued as far as I can tell. I also loved Count Chocula. Archway chocolate chip cookies(the crunchy ones) are mostly dead and only appear in stores once every three months or so. Not gone, but they changed the pepperoni in Red Baron’s Deep Dish Singles, it’s actually regular pepperoni now, but the diced cubes worked so well. Totino’s did something similar. Is there some market for sliced and cubed pepperoni that I don’t know about that fluctuates?

Food: Care Bear Waffles. I know they were just ‘miscellaneous fake berry’ flavored, but they were awesome, and no other frozen waffle has ever tasted as good to me.

Drink: The Matrix flavor of Powerade – it was black cherry and lime, it was bright green, and it was the tastiest beverage known to mankind. Hell, the drink was better than the second and third movies… I keep hoping that they’ll bring back that combination, but honestly, I keep seeing less and less Powerade of *any* flavor around here.

My fiancee would give his right arm for the return of Crystal Pepsi. He’s absolutely obsessive about it.

I have so many, it’s hard to know where to begin.

Breakfast foods? How about a granola cereal by Post called “C.W. Post.” The new Just Bunches caramel flavor comes close…but there is still something missing. I also miss a LOT of the non-frosted PopTart flavors. I like to fix my PopTarts with melted butter, and the frosted kind just don’t have enough butter absorbing surface area. Anymore, I can only reliably get the Strawberry flavor and the Cinnamon/Brown Sugar (which I hate) in unfrosted.

Drinks? Zelter Seltzer, Orbits (what WERE those little balls made of?), Someone above mentioned the Snappel Elements series. Air flavor in the GLASS BOTTLE, please! Even Diet Air was good, and I usually hate the diet version of any beverage.

Fast Food? Well, they’ve closed all the Dariy Queens where I am, so just put me down for missing ANYTHING on the DQ menu. It drives me CRAZY when I see a commercial for DQ Blizzards on cable, I want one so badly. Hardee’s hamburgers…Carl’s Jr IS NOT THE SAME. The McDonald’s McChicken that was made with a chicken patty that was just an OLD STYLE chicken nugget, not the spicy “Cajun McChicken” holdover patties we have now. And speaking of that…OLD STYLE chicken nuggets, too. I would also trade an entire trunkfull of “baked” pies just to have ONE of McD’s FRIED cherry pies again.

For just general snack foods, I know I’m going to be showing my age on this one (I’m not really THAT old), but I also miss when Sears stores had candy counters where you could get seasame crackers that were kept warm under heated lights. Some of the specailty candy stores in mall’s still sell seasame crackers that way, but I’ve never found any as good as the one’s I used to get at Sears. And I second whomever mentioned the strawberry and cream Twinkie, too.

On the plus side, a few things I like went away and came back again, most recently the Carl’s Jr. Teryaki burger.

Dr.Pepper released a cherry vanilla cola in diet form that I haven’t been able to find anywhere since. It was wonderful, had no aftertaste, was sufficiantly vanilla AND cherry flavoured and had zero calories – a nice feature for somebody who doesn’t drink pop often but doesn’t need the 400 calories it can empty into you for no reason. I really wish I could find it in Canada again.

Sky Bars(Chocolate Bar With 4 Sections. One having fudge,one having vanilla filling, one having caramel,and the last having a penuty-type filling). Apparently they still make em once a year, or something like that…. My mom got me a whole box (32…or was it 16?Or even 62?!?) of them 2ish years ago.
also,Vanilla Coke, Among other things

Clearly Canadian Blackberry flavored water. I think they relaunched them in 2006, but they taste different. Oh, and while not discontinued it is something I can’t get anymore, the pizza they served when I was in school. If I could by those things, I would.

*agrees with Lanigh about the pizzas of school* I think they put crack in the crust because folks that never had a quarter to lend you always had the extra money for those pizzas.

Foods:
Strawberry honecombs – awesome. Chocolate? Not so much
Blueberry pancake cereal – Kroger sold it then stopped
Honey bunches of oats. – even if it cut the inside of your mouth like razors, it was tasty and NEVER went soggy in under 10 hours in milk.
sharp cheddar cheese spread. – for this I weep. Heavily.
strawberry banana juice – walmart sold it then stopped selling it. I weep and I rage. I need a hug.
light blue sprite or was it mountain due?
peppermint coffee creamer – hate its seasonal. So good in tea
powdered eggnog – see above but in milk, brownies, chocolate milk, etc

Personals (non food i know but still, i miss them so)
Suave medicated facial cleanser. – it was sooooooo good for my skin!
sunripened raspberry ANYthing from suave – i love that scent
berries and cream ANYthing from suave – notice a trend to suave? They just break your heart all the time.
vanilla mint crest – i can’t find it near me.

Yes to Crystal Pepsi and Pepsi Blue. And 7Up Gold was really good, too. I also remember from about a million years ago a cereal called Freakies. I can’t even remember what it tasted like, but I remember my mom bought it for me when I was a toddler.

My b/f has been aggravated for years now that his Desert Spice deodorant was discontinued.

I remember there used to be a bagel accomplice to toaster strudels, shaped the same but with a bagel-y outside and fruity cream cheesy inside. I miss those so, so much.
Also, I hardly ever see frutopia anymore, and I remember this soda released briefly when I was little, black with a picture of a jaguar on the side but I can’t remember the name, only that it was really good.
And I remember getting crave from the local gas stations, little plastic vials filled with powdered candy goodness that turned your tongue black. Amazing.